NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 05 January 1989
LEAD: International A2-15
Timothy McKenzie, bedre kendt som Labrinth er en musiker fra Storbritannien.
Læs mere...4. januar 1989 var en onsdag under stjernetegnet for ♑. Det var 3 dag på året. Præsident for USA var Ronald Reagan.
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Date: 04 January 1989
LEAD: International A2-9 A major Soviet troop withdrawal from Afghanistan appears to be ready for as early as Jan. 15, Western diplomats said. At the same time, rebels announced an alliance for interim government. Page A1
Date: 05 January 1989
By Sheila Rule, Special To the New York Times
Sheila Rule
LEAD: The battle for control of William Collins P.L.C., the Scottish publisher, took a new turn today as a friendly French bidder stepped aside and Collins said it would open talks with Rupert Murdoch's News International P.L.C.
Date: 04 January 1989
Reuters
LEAD: The Scottish publisher William Collins P.L.C. today rejected an increased takeover bid by Rupert Murdoch and sought a friendly deal with a French publisher instead.
Date: 05 January 1989
AP
LEAD: The Turner Broadcasting System said today that it would transmit the Cable News Network 24 hours a day to Latin America on the Pan American Satellite Corporation's international satellite. The agreement followed tests that began in November, TBS said. Turner's decision to use Pan American Satellite is a victory for the private company, based in Greenwich, Conn., and a defeat for Intelsat, the international consortium that operates most communications satellites.
Date: 05 January 1989
By Joseph B. Treaster, Special To the New York Times
Joseph
LEAD: Fidel Castro sought tonight to minimize differences between Cuba and the Soviet Union, but reaffirmed his refusal to adopt Mikhail S. Gorbachev's program of economic liberalization to remedy his country's critical economic problems.
Date: 04 January 1989
By Floyd Abrams
Floyd Abrams
LEAD: Once the Joel Steinberg trial is over, will there be any serious argument left against televising trials?
Date: 05 January 1989
By N. R. Kleinfield
N. Kleinfield
LEAD: Gail Evans has 9,000 telephone numbers. She has dozens of earthquake survivors, 15 people who say they've had afterlife experiences, 4 who insist they've seen Big Foot. She has the phone number of Cher's mother and the number of Rocky Graziano's upstairs neighbor. She has business numbers, home numbers, country home numbers, car phone numbers, airplane numbers and beeper numbers.
Date: 04 January 1989
By Richard Levine
Richard Levine
LEAD: Mayor Edward I. Koch yesterday spent much of his first, formal City Hall press conference of the year testily complaining about the press.
Date: 04 January 1989
By Bill Keller, Special To the New York Times
Bill Keller
LEAD: ''French perfumes, French wines, the French striving for comfort have been well known to you for a long time,'' read the notice on page 5 of tonight's issue of Izvestia, the Soviet Government daily newspaper. ''Now you have the opportunity to get better acquainted with industrial France.''